Mentor Graphics is routinely assessed as the third of the "big three" in EDA, but in practice, this pigeon-holing is simply a comparative reference to revenues. The truth is that in a period of little to no growth...

Although the issue of excessive inventory is casting a shadow over the global semiconductor industry, players in the memory sector continue increasing their capital expenditure (capex). For Micron Technology, the world's...

Last year, Taiwan's leading packaging-and-testing house Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) was expected to have a tough time since the company suffered from a fire at its plant in Chungli, Taoyuan County. However,...

Created less than four years ago as a joint venture between the Germany-based Infineon Technologies and Taiwan-based Nanya Technology, Inotera Memories is now seen as an example of the achievements of Taiwan's semiconductor...

In June, Archie Hwang became the first chairman of SEMI from Taiwan. In practice, he wears a number of hats. Hwang is chairman and CEO of Taiwan distributorship Hermes-Epitek. Simultaneously he's chairman of ion-implantation...

When STMicroelectronics appointed Bob Krysiak as corporate vice president and general manager to head its newly established Greater China operations in October 2005, it stressed that the creation of the new unit was a vital...

As the semiconductor industry moves further into deep submicron and begins to implement new design techniques and materials such as high-K dielectrics, new deposition techniques are required. Currently, the industry buzz...

Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging from financial incredulity, when...

Rumors of an AMD acquisition of ATI had been swirling for some time. Certainly the rumor mill was at work prior to Computex in June. Reactions to the initial rumors were varied, ranging from financial incredulity, when...

Industry observers and analysts are always on the look-out for the next big thing. Many of them think that the next big thing could be in a very small form factor – digital TV on the mobile phone and possibly other...

On Tuesday, July 11 - the eve of his official appointment as chairman of SEMI - Archie Hwang spoke with DigiTimes about his new appointment.

For Synopsys president and CEO Chi Foon Chan, one of the keys to the production at the 90nm and 65nm processes lies in system integration. DigiTimes recently talked to Chan about the EDA (electronic design automation) market...

Thanks to its frequent appearances on the stage of IDF (Intel Developer Forum) conferences, WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) technology is often considered as a wireless solution that mainly depends...

The prospect of displays utilizing light-emitting polymers is nothing new. A company such as CDT, for example, has been proposing the inkjet printing of displays based on light-emitting polymers for some time, now. A new...

Global Positioning System (GPS) technology now has a wide range of applications in consumer electronics, thanks to major reductions in the size of chipsets and improvements in signal reception, according to Michael Canning,...

Readers of DigiTimes.com will be familiar with the major technical differentiation we now see between the twin poles of the PC processor world, AMD and Intel. AMD has broken free of a front-side bus architecture, integrating...

With the arrival of new CEO Abhi Talwalkar, LSI Logic embarked on a re-think of its operations, finally deciding to re-focus on ICs for storage and the consumer-electronics space. Simultaneously, the company's Gresham fab,...

With its XtremeAR product, Mentor Graphics is again upping the ante in the world of PCB design. XtremeAR builds on the collaborative, shared-database approach made available with Mentor's XtremePCB tool and allows compute...

Operational amplifiers (op amps) are the workhorses of analog circuitry. They are found everywhere; they are used everywhere. That’s not to say the technology and those who provide it are standing still. Improved...

CamSemi is a venture-funded startup offering single-chip power-IC solutions based on technology initially developed at Cambridge University. Another example of the possibilities now made available by silicon-on-insulator...

With renewed growth in the IP-core markets, companies such as ARC and Tensilica, specialists in configurable cores, are competing with a number of well known names in “fixed” or industry standard architecture...

Altera's traditional reputation is that of vying with Xilinx for the market crown in FPGAs, but it's now doing that in a market that's seeing rapid evolution. FPGAs are of increasing interest to customers who would normally...

Altera's traditional reputation is that of vying with Xilinx for the market crown in FPGAs, but it's now doing that in a market that's seeing rapid evolution. FPGAs are of increasing interest to customers who would normally...

Innovative Silicon (ISi) is a venture-funded start-up company, founded by chief scientist Serguei Okhonin and chairman and CTO Pierre Fazan, dedicated to the development and licensing of Z-RAM memory technology.

Richard Chang, president and CEO of China-based Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), anticipates that the company will turn profitable this year, as the foundry will begin phasing out depreciation...